They're made of matter just as human beings are, but their bodies aren't compounded of separable elements.

他们同人类一样由物质组成，但他们的身体不分部件。

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So, if you look in chapter one, you will find these definitions for different atomic groupings starting down here with the elements and moving through up through complex matter.

如果你们读第一章，你们会发现不同的原子组的定义,从底下开始有一些基本原理,往上还有复杂的物质。

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I was just finding very tunnel vision-like, the smallest elements at that moment in time which means I don't know anything about the other elements other than they are not the smallest and so no matter what with Selection Sort I had to repeat this again and again and again and if you do out the math it's roughly N squared steps in the worst case as well.

我只有一个狭窄的视野，只知道某时刻的最小元素,就意味着我并不知道其他元素的任何情况,只知道它们不是最小的,所以不管怎样，在选择排序中,我就得一遍一遍地重复选择过程,在最坏情况下,大概需要N的平方次比较。

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